How high can a Sheepie jump?
Those of you who were at Sheepiepalooza may have noticed our means of transportation consists of two crates in the back of my pickup (which has a camper top). The dogs love to ride and usually can't wait till I open the crate doors and drop the tailgate. This morning we were headed for the groomer. After taking the truck out of the garage I brought the guys out and put them on a sit/stay while I opened the camper lid, unlatched the crate doors and dropped the tailgate. Before I had a chance to drop the gate, Barney decided to skip the formalities and jumped into the truck over the tailgate - a jump of 50 inches! I hope he doesn't transfer that feat to my fenced yard or I'll have to build a higher fence. |
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| Wow! 50"? That amazing. Clyde can barely jump 5". The only time he clears more than that is to get up on the bed and even that isn't 100% of the time. |
| Ollie could jump into the box of a pickup with the tailgate up also.
I remember one time we had our new washer delivered. It was in a huge pickup with a Tommy lift on the back. He wanted to check it out, and jumped right over the gate into the pickup - without even touching it. 
Chewie isn't that motivated. If he had his way I would boost him into the Element - both ends too. Although tonight he made history......... he jumped up onto the grooming table!!!!!!
All by himself, all in one leap!   |
| Of our four sheepies, we've had two who do not jump at all.
Our first, a bit of a mix, loved to jump. Fifty inches doesn't sound impossible for him. Hudson, our newest, enjoys flying leaps off of things, but not onto or over them yet. I'm sure his time will come. The bonus to a super duper jumper is no lifting him into the truck I guess. We have a "monster truck" sadly, and we lift bums quite often. Fifty inches sounds like someone who has a pretty interesting future ahead. |
| I am really not sure how high Violet, with HD, can jump...but when she knows we are going to the van to go somewhere she does the sheepie jump where all four paws are level in the air as she jumps to about my face level with excitement....I'm 5' tall. |
got sheep wrote: Chewie isn't that motivated. If he had his way I would boost him into the Element - both ends too. Although tonight he made history.........
he jumped up onto the grooming table!!!!!! All by himself, all in one leap! Send him to me. If I can't explain the advantages of leaping onto and over things, his siblings will.
Sybil has now reached 40" from a standstill over the baby gates. It's become a battle of wills - or something. In show jumping (horses) there is a special event where they keep raising the jump to see which horse can jump the highest. That's what it feels like.  We'll see how far it goes. That's almost twice her height at the withers. And that's just the vertical. I've been doing jump training with her in agility and I'm having a hard time explaining that she needs to be able to collect herself after spreads. Right now if I allow her to take the double at speed, she lands a good eight to ten feet beyond it. Now, of you consider the width of the double itself, plus add the normal take off distance at her jump height, she's jumping a length of 13-15 feet. It's not as cute as it sounds if you can't find room to take off for the next jump...
Mind you, she doesn't jump onto the grooming table, but her sister does. Constantly. She sleeps there and I some times come home from work to find her peering out at me. She also jumps directly onto the top of the dogwalk. Che just jumps on top of the crates which I use, excuse me, USED, to block off access to the training room, walks over the top and escapes. So does Mace. They each have their favorites oddities that involve levitation and escape, but so far it doesn't extend to fences. However, two little rescue girls we got in in January, including Deb's petite little Lizzie, were known to jump 4 and 5 feet fences. None of this should be a surprise. They're supposed to be an athletic breed. Kristine |
Kristine wrote: Mind you, she doesn't jump onto the grooming table,
There must be something about grooming tables. After Barney's marvelous jump, when we arrived at the groomer's, I brought Barney into the grooming room and tried to get him to jump up on the table...no way. |
George wrote: Kristine wrote: Mind you, she doesn't jump onto the grooming table, There must be something about grooming tables. After Barney's marvelous jump, when we arrived at the groomer's, I brought Barney into the grooming room and tried to get him to jump up on the table...no way. Maybe because that may involve GROOMING TOOLS??? I don't know about Barney, George, but my Sybil is a Grade A PIG. Her sister's the prissy one.
And for all her freestyle jumping, Sybil will still sometimes do what I taught her as a puppy: put her front feet up onto the car and wait for me to hoist her butt. I won't. I mean, please. If you can hoist your tushie over the gate to the cat's room, you can do a simple hup into the car 
Those kinds of things at least make sense. Che, who will leap on top of a crate that's waist high to me, when faced with a simple 12" high bar jump for the first time looked at it and tried to do the limbo. Some day, hopefully many, many years from now, I will be donating that boy's brain to science. Kristine |
George wrote: Kristine wrote
Quote: Mind you, she doesn't jump onto the grooming table, There must be something about grooming tables. After Barney's marvelous jump, when we arrived at the groomer's, I brought Barney into the grooming room and tried to get him to jump up on the table...no way. Our Ollie LOVED the grooming table. I couldn't keep him off of it. He wasn't that hip on grooming - tolerated it well is all. But, he saw it as another valuable vantage point to survey and protect his domain! He loved it when I had it set up in my garage and left the garage door open.  |
got sheep wrote: Our Ollie LOVED the grooming table. I couldn't keep him off of it. He wasn't that hip on grooming - tolerated it well is all. But, he saw it as another valuable vantage point to survey and protect his domain! He loved it when I had it set up in my garage and left the garage door open.
Sybil just prefers alternate perches that don't involve the threat of getting clean, I guess  :
KB |
Mad Dog wrote: got sheep wrote: Our Ollie LOVED the grooming table. I couldn't keep him off of it. He wasn't that hip on grooming - tolerated it well is all. But, he saw it as another valuable vantage point to survey and protect his domain! He loved it when I had it set up in my garage and left the garage door open. Sybil just prefers alternate perches that don't involve the threat of getting clean, I guess :KB LOL, yep, that would be Sybil!!!  |
got sheep wrote: Our Ollie LOVED the grooming table. I couldn't keep him off of it. He wasn't that hip on grooming - tolerated it well is all. But, he saw it as another valuable vantage point to survey and protect his domain! He loved it when I had it set up in my garage and left the garage door open.
LOL That is Harry. He likes grooming well enough but what he really LOVES is being up on the table. |
| Obe will jump into the front seat of the truck and 2 out of 10 times he will jump into the bed. Oh and he has know problem jumping into the bed that I get a small portion of when it's time to sleep. |
| Bella will jump onto the exam table at the vets...I think she is confused. |
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